PR Ramesh is Managing Editor of Open
Changing the naval ensign is intrinsic to Narendra Modi’s larger project of removing the last traces of the colonial past
09 September 2022Delhi’s liquor scam is the biggest but not the only crisis to have hit the AAP government. Across sectors, from education and health to largescale freebies, the Arvind Kejriwal regime faces charges of corruption, some of which even hark back to the early years of the party
26 August 2022Led from the front by Amit Shah, the government is putting in place a comprehensive and globally connected mechanism to combat drug trafficking
19 August 2022Modi has shown the country how to dream big and believe in itself and that there is no contradiction between owning an ancient civilisational heritage and becoming a 21st century technological power
11 August 2022Competitive populism has put the finances of several states in peril. Fixing the faultlines starts with making a distinction between unmerited subsidies and targeted benefits for the needy
05 August 2022Did AAP’s government in Delhi provide inordinate benefits to liquor licensees at the expense of the public exchequer?
29 July 2022Inside the conspiracy featuring Teesta Setalvad, Ahmed Patel and others to implicate the then Gujarat chief minister in the 2002 riots
22 July 2022Is the silence of vocal defenders of free speech in the Nupur Sharma case encouraging Islamists to demand a blasphemy law in India?
14 July 2022Elevating Draupadi Murmu as NDA’S presidential candidate is a significant step in Narendra Modi’s project of civilisational repair that is bringing the marginalised into the social mainstream
01 July 2022CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.